TypeScript Engineer

Application Engineer, Cambridge (Hybrid), £60k to £100k DOE

Avanti Recruitment is partnering with a well-established award-winning AI software company that builds advanced technology used by leading organisations to manage and analyse large volumes of complex documents.

Founded over a decade ago, the business combines deep technical expertise with real-world impact, operating at scale with enterprise customers while retaining the pace and agility of a product-led technology company.

This is an opportunity to join a growing application engineering team working on production-grade systems at the intersection of software engineering, data, and applied AI.

THE ROLE

As an Application Engineer, you will work within a cross-functional product team, building and scaling features that are used directly by customers.

• Develop full stack features across a large, complex platform
• Work with high-volume, data-heavy systems where performance and scalability matter
• Collaborate closely with product managers, QA, and AI-focused R&D teams
• Take ownership of features from design through to production and iteration
• Contribute ideas and improvements rather than working from rigid specifications

TECH ENVIRONMENT

• JavaScript and Type Script
• Node.js
• Modern frontend frameworks (with an ongoing migration to React)
• Postgre
  
  SQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR

• Strong academic background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline (1st or 2.1 from a good University)
• Typically 3-5 years of commercial software engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates
• Experience building production software, ideally in a full stack environment
• Strong problem-solving ability and logical thinking

For more information on this incredible opportunity, please apply online or reach out to Mike Walton at Avanti for more information.